While traversing the moon’s surface after a planned launch later this year, Astrobotic’s shoebox-sized CubeRover will have some downtime: extra computing power that won’t always be in use. And thanks ...

These days we are blessed with multicore 64-bit monster CPUs that can calculate an entire moon mission’s worth of instructions in the blink of an eye. Once upon a time, though, the state of the art ...

For thousands of years, mathematicians and scientists have worked on calculating the digits of pi -- a project that could literally go on forever. For now, we at least know the first 100 trillion ...